Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 323
page 284. Date: 1710-1730. This day-bed avoids the weakness at the head shown on the more stylishFlemish couches, which always have a strongly marked angle in the headposts beginning at the level of the frame. In the Pennsylvania pieces thatangle is attempted by a kind of half-hearted bend or… … A DAY-BED belonging to J. Milton Coburn, M.D. This interestingpiece may be classed among country-made furniture; that is not to say thatit is any the less meritorious, but that it was made at a point where theartisan was removed from the direct influence of an established style. Hetherefore worked…
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